To meet a lawyer :
It can be a great waste of time for lawyer and you, if you are not ready for your first meeting. To be not prepared can also end in costing you a lot of money, because it will take longer for lawyer to consider your business.
The lawyer will want to know who you are and how to contact you :
·1 Home Address
·2 Work Address
·3 Telephone of the residence
·4 Work phone
·5 Cell phone
·6 Fax Number
·7 Email address
Prepare a chronological summary of the facts leading you to meet the lawyer. The important facts include :
·1 names of the principal speakers in your conflict
·2 basic principal Facts
·3 the date of the conflict
·4 the type of the conflict (harassing, contract, divorce)
·5 principal Events of your conflict. To provide “who, what, where, when and why”.
·6 the actual position of your conflict.
The dates are very important. You must be precise. Take a calendar and mark in bottom the dates on which the things occur and when you receive all the certificates or other documents. To bring the calendar to your meeting like reference.
To collect all the documents which you can have. Those can include:
·1 Contracts
·2 Mail, including emails
·3 Photographs
·4 Accident claims
·5 Work tools, such as an employee guide
·6 Reports/ratios of witness
To try to organize the documents in a logical way before meeting lawyer.
Sometimes, a lawyer can also try to dispatch information collecting the process by the sending of a questionnaire to be supplemented before any meeting. To send, moreover, the whole of copies of all the documents available which can be required in the questionnaire.
The lawyer will want to know the possible conflicts of interest.
Prepare a list of goals of what you want and which the lawyer will help you to carry out. The typical goals could include :
·1 To obtain a contract or any other legal document to review.
O Which are the essential points of the business?
O How should you answer?
O What are the subjects of concern?
O How other customers did answer the similar questions in the past?
O How the opposite part is likely to answer the document?
·2 Strategy to arrive at your ends.
·3 the Council on the way in which of answering an adversary threatening to send a letter against you.
·4 Evaluation of the legal complaints.
Prepare questions with the lawyer. Those will be usually dependant to carry out your projects, since the primary education goal is to include/understand your rights and to obtain a legal council. The questions which you could request from a lawyer can include :
·1 How does the lawyer see the evaluation of your case ?
·2 What are your options, legal and illegal ?
·3 How many similar cases handled?
·4 What is his level of practice in your field? Which of his specializations do you need?
·5 Does the lawyer usually represent employers or employees?
· 6 What problems the lawyer expect with your case?
·7 How will the lawyer handle your situation? What is the process?
·8 How long will take to bring the business to a conclusion?
·9 How would the lawyer invoice his services?
·10 If he can entrust the business to other professionals of his cabinet? If the other lawyers can carry out part of work, could you meet them?
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